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Arjun Krishna Lal was born in Trivandrum, but was brought up in the small town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the US. He delved into his cultural experience of returning to India as a high schooler while writing Wicked Games. Arjun studied journalism and currently runs a B2B corporate communications business. He loves to travel and play video games in his free time.

Chandra Bhan Prasad is a public intellectual and mentor, Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI).

D. Shyam Babu is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Devesh Kapur is Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sadruddin Hashwani is founder-chairman of the Hashoo Group, a leading Pakistani business conglomerate that runs the country’s largest hotel operations and has interests stretching from hospitality to oil and gas exploration and production, property development and real estate, industries and commodities trading. A self-made man from a humble, middle-class background, Hashwani is among Pakistan’s most eminent citizens and best-known philanthropists.
In 2014, the Award of Knight-Commander in the Order of Leopold II was conferred upon Sadruddin Hashwani by HH King Philippe of Belgium in recognition of his services to the kingdom of Belgium.
His success, Hashwani believes, has come against the odds, and is due to his strong faith and the blessings of the Almighty and his forefathers.

Ralph Lazar (Author)
Illustrators Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar established Last Lemon Productions in 1999, which originates, produces, and licenses cartoon properties.Lisa studied politics, philosophy, and economics at England’s OxfordUniversity.She formerly ran her own graphic design business in London.Ralph studied law and economics at South Africa’s University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.He was formerly an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston.Their wacky and curious characters, the Brainwaves, appear in the DK books How Nearly Everything was Invented and How the Incredible Human Body Works.

Lisa Swerling (Author)
Illustrators Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar established Last Lemon Productions in 1999, which originates, produces, and licenses cartoon properties.Lisa studied politics, philosophy, and economics at England’s OxfordUniversity.She formerly ran her own graphic design business in London.Ralph studied law and economics at South Africa’s University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.He was formerly an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston.Their wacky and curious characters, the Brainwaves, appear in the DK books How Nearly Everything was Invented and How the Incredible Human Body Works.

Illustrators Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar established Last Lemon Productions in 1999, which originates, produces, and licenses cartoon properties.Lisa studied politics, philosophy, and economics at England’s OxfordUniversity.She formerly ran her own graphic design business in London.Ralph studied law and economics at South Africa’s University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.He was formerly an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston.Their wacky and curious characters, the Brainwaves, appear in the DK books How Nearly Everything was Invented and How the Incredible Human Body Works.

Lt Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon is Military Adviser in the National Security Council Secretariat, and was earlier commandant of the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Rajiv Kumar, an economist, is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. He was secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and former director of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).